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Title: BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE SCOTTISH CENTRAL FILM LIBRARY

Reference number: 6665

Date: 1970

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 28.33 mins

Description: Both reels are unedited footage of behind the scenes at the Scottish Central Film Library. Staff at work and films in storage on shelves.

Shotlist: Reel 1
[col] Clapperboard dated 21/11/70. Woman holding invoice for Royal Bank of Scotland dated 18/11/70, mention of 16mm safety film. Filing them in dookits (0.43) c/u string wrapping machine in cage, woman operating it to tie boxes of film (1.54) boxes of film going in red sack (2.01 c/u boxes film (2.18) i/v man at desk (2.54) [insert] Punch & Judy show, puppets switch words 'The Harts of Kween' to say 'The Kween of Harts' (3.10) [insert] red squirrel feeding out of coconut hanging from tree (3.23) [b&w] [insert] c/u large lightbulb (3.55) [insert] view out windows, corniced ceiling (4.20) film being placed in can then box (4.35) int. projector, smoke rising int auditorium (5.49) c/u man on phone, rptd take (6.44) mailroom staff labelling film boxes (8.45) woman at desk helping woman with enquiry, shows him SCFL book (10.05) int. library women working at desks, consulting records and answering phone, gvs staff (11.41) man at desk, interviewer (12.40) audience, man talking after film show (13.31) [b&w] [insert] five women in white dresses dancing to piano accompaniment (13.55) [col] [insert] hand pointing to organ pipes (14.21) 516ft

Reel 2
[col] Clapperboard dated 31/10/70. Int SCFL, pan shelves stacked film boxes. Rptd (2.17) closer view boxes on shelves (3.05) diff angle pan. Rptd (5.31) closer view pan along shelf, title 'Tam o' Shanter'. Rptd. Different shelf. Rptd (4.55) Different shelf. Rptd (7.45) pan down shelves of film (8.10) pan along shelves to brick wall (8.45) elevated pan shelves. Rptd (9.37) filing drawers (UISTEM), hand sorting through pulls out pink kalamazoo card (9.55) filing system, green cards, blue cards, numbers all visible. Red, pink (10.59) hands at desk filling form, c/u film hire order form dated 19/12/70, address '16/17 Woodside Terrace, Charing Cross, Glasgow, G3. Rptd (11.47) hands at card index drum, more gvs form filling. Forms put in tray (12.25) c/u typewriter being used for form filling (13.31) c/u invoice to Science Dept, Graeme High School, Falkirk for 'Our Friend the Atom' etc, several carbon copies (14.12) 511ft